Northern Spain. Image: Land Life Company
Land Life Company, a reforestation company, and oil giant Royal Dutch Shell today announced the launch of a new, data-driven reforestation project in the Castilla y León region of Spain.
As part of Shell’s $300-million carbon offsetting plan, the reforestation project funds the planting and monitoring of 300 hectares of degraded land in 2019 by Land Life Company.
Jurriaan Ruys, Land Life Company CEO, steers an analytical approach to developing high quality reforestation projects.
“Shell’s investment in our reforestation project will help restore land degraded by overfarming and wildfires. The new forest will remove over 55,000 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere, increase biodiversity and encourage the return of investment to one of the most beautiful parts of Spain,” he said.
In 2019, Land Life Company will plant over a million trees, reforesting over 1,000 hectares, worldwide.
"Natural ecosystems, such as forests, help humanity in many little understood but critical ways, from addressing climate change to biodiversity and air quality. Land Life’s technology-driven approach creates opportunities to increase the scale and performance of reforestation globally," said Duncan van Bergen, Vice President of Nature Based Solutions at Shell.
Land Life’s technology is used across the reforestation value chain. Before planting, data is compiled from satellites, UAVs, climate models and soil samples to optimise planting designs and maximise tree survival. GPS-led automated planting systems are then used to reforest at scale. Trees are tracked, traced and monitored through a combination of remote sensing, AI and distributed ledger technologies. The Land Life database fuels the Company’s innovation roadmap and provides customers, such as Shell, with insights into forest growth and impact achieved on the ground.
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